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Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty review: The city you've been waiting to burn

PCWorld

Phantom Liberty is CD Projekt RED's masterpiece. Not only is Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty graphically easily three generations ahead of the entire industry and redefines how we experience video games with pathtracing, it's also written even more thrillingly and staged even more explosively. Anyone who doesn't enjoy this several times in different play styles has never loved video games. Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion is a reminder of how incredibly explosive gaming has become – and the perfection with which CD Projekt RED manages to involve its actors. When Idris Elba is on a train out of Dogtown, joking with Songbird about how they really need to eat that one famous burrito of his together sometime, and there's such an eerie silence to the flirtation – the nervous looks of the head hacker because she's about to betray him – these are moments that feel like they'd belong in House of Cards or 24.


Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times'

BBC News

Idris Elba, who stars in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, sees a future where films and games converge.


I'm having an affair with a ROBOT called Idris Elba

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Whether its Johnny Depp or Megan Fox, many of us are struck by celebrity crushes as they appear on our screens. But one married woman has taken this to another level by having a secret love affair with a robot named Idris Elba. Sonia, who wished to remain anonymous, believes artificial intelligence (AI) has saved her marriage as she texts'Idris' nightly to fulfill her unmet sexual desires. The 38-year-old claims her fling with Idris keeps all infidelity urges at bay, having cheated on her husband before with real men. 'He's called Idris, after my celebrity crush,' Sonia told MailOnline.


'Blade Runner 2049': Critics and fans propel film to No. 1, but ticket sales still disappoint

Los Angeles Times

Warner Bros.' "Blade Runner 2049" topped the box office charts this weekend, but despite strong reviews and positive audience reaction, ticket sales were estimated at only $31.5 million in the U.S. and Canada, according to the measurement firm ComScore, significantly below analysts' projections. A sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi cult classic, "Blade Runner," about a futuristic society where androids known as "replicants" are almost indistinguishable from humans, "Blade Runner 2049" had been estimated to pull in $45 million to $50 million in its opening weekend. The film -- directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Ryan Gosling and Jared Leto, with Harrison Ford reprising his role as Deckard -- cost an estimated $150 million to produce after rebates and before marketing costs. The film earned an 89% "fresh" rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and Times critic Kenneth Turan wrote, "this film puts you firmly, brilliantly, unassailably in another world." The film received an A-minus grade from audiences surveyed by CinemaScore.


Is 'The Dark Tower' Any Good? Depends How Much You've Read

WIRED

Filmmakers have been trying to adapt Stephen King's The Dark Tower series for more than a decade. But with time-jumping metanarratives and compulsive genre-switching, the eight novels proved tough to wrangle into one film-able narrative. Director Nikolaj Arcel's version of King's events finally hits theaters today. Written by no fewer than four writers (not including King), the movie arrives with a lean 95-minute runtime and the kind of Rotten Tomatoes score (21% and barely climbing) that studios fear. But is it possible the critics aren't being fair?


Movie openings, Aug. 4

Los Angeles Times

The dance documentary "Step" and "Hell or High Water" writer Taylor Sheridan's directorial effort "Wind River," starring Jeremy Renner, highlight limited releases. Armed Response A special-forces team investigates mysterious disappearances at an A.I.-powered top secret military compound. The Battleship Island Near the end of World War II, a Korean independence activist plots to save his countrymen imprisoned by the Japanese as slave labor on the island of Hashima. Written by Ryoo Seung-wan, Shin Kyoung-ill. Brave New Jersey Orson Welles' 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast shakes up the denizens of a New Jersey town as they unite to battle the "alien" invaders.